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CFP: Calling for Proposals to Host Day of DH in 2017 and 2018

A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is an open community initiative sponsored by centerNet that each year brings together scholars interested in the digital humanities from around the world to document what they do on one day. The goal is to create a website that weaves together a picture of the participants’ activities on the day and which answers the question, ‘Just what do digital humanists really do?’ Participants document their day through photographs and text, all of which is published on a community online platform, forming a record of the day. Both during and after the day, people are encouraged to read and comment on their fellow participants’ posts. DH has been a centerNet initiative since 2012.

Day of DH has been generously hosted for the past 2 years by LINHD: Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales de la UNED, and was previously hosted by MATRIX at Michigan State University. See the latest Day of DH site for further information: http://dayofdh2015.uned.es/.

centerNet is now accepting proposals for the next Digital Humanities center to host this worldwide event. We are asking for a TWO YEAR hosting commitment for 2017 and 2018.

If you are interested, please send your 1-page proposal detailing your technical and managerial capacity to centerNet’s International Secretary, Meral Karrasch [meral.karrasch@gmail.com] by June 30, 2016. Proposals can be submitted in English, Spanish, or French, as well as other languages in cases where translation is readily available (for other languages, please check first with the Secretary).

We will choose and announce the new Day of DH 2017 + 2018 hosting center at the DH2016 conference.

Day(s) of DH

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If you think your center is a digital humanities center, in whole or in part, then we’d be glad to have you join centerNet. We leave the definition of “digital humanities” up to you, but we intend to be inclusive, and we know that there will be cross-over into the social sciences, media studies, digital arts, and other related areas. This might include humanities centers with a strong interest in or focus on digital platforms. One caveat—a “center” should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence. To see a list our Founding Centers from around the world, click here.